Modern Games Developers be like "We openly hate you if you buy this game" and then throw a fit when they get sacked cause nobody bought their games lmfao
@@frogglen6350 the newest Yakuza Game? Yes, it did. Elden Ring and Stellar Blade? Afaik the only negatives came from their Publishers, the developers themselves actually liked their playerbase
@@frogglen6350 elden ring and stellar blade were scared of the PC mob. Remember that they called it player type 1 and 2 in ER? Sony I believe was forcing the censorship on stellar blade.
Exactly why I left Genshin. Character and consequently story progression is tied to currency earned through side quests, which I cannot even consider as gameplay, how terrible they are. Waifus weren't enough for me to sell my time like that.
I thought it was just me because I'm 35. It's not just video games, it's music, movies, TV shows. Even social interactions are lack luster now due to social media.
@@ywer3455 I played every type of game imaginable. I played every game that was also listed up to number 1 of the list of every game. None of them are impressive.
@@ywer3455 indies are copied and pasted garbage as well. Most indies are metroidvanias, the ones that aren't are disco elysium which is just talking to people and sea of stars which was copied and pasted golden sun combined with chrono trigger. The outer wilds made me go to sleep, it was so boring.
@KatKat32 vr games are mostly indies but again, they are shallow and they get repetitive and boring fast. Once indies start actually going big and creating high graphics open world stuff, then let me know.
for real, the amount of space needed just for one game is ridiculous. i miss when you could just pop a game into the console and pla it. no downloading or anything
As soon as I knew SweetBabyInc, Vanguard and BlackRock took over the gaming industry, I knew I had to start buying old consoles to play/replay real masterpieces again. Fk new games.
@@Njohns1 I've been gaming since the early 80s and I maintain that Skyrim is the greatest game I've ever played. It has some flaws and there are some aspects that other games might do better. But when all things are considered, it was a monumental achievement and I have never seen anything that tops it.
Modern video game devs be like: "If you don't like our politics, don't buy our game." *the game sells poorly* "Wait... you mean NOBODY likes our politics? How's that even possible?!"
Or how everything was actually political all along "and they have to point it all out" Yes tell me again about how Mario, Doomguy, and Scorpion are actually (text here)-ist/ support your cause. NFS is actually about rising above suppression of self, and anarchy. Or Ratchet and Clank is socialist manifesto
There best case arguments come from things like Cod, who are given funding to advertise the military. However even then, the best of these games show the horrors of war, and corruption that can be brought about from it. "but that's also a political statement" Totally, because defaming the premise of your game, is definitely what a politically active entity who are known to be very open minded and especially creative would do I wonder what Ghosts stance is on conscription? - No normal person ever
Not gonna lie. In the last 4 years the only "new" game i finished was Dead Island 2. If we check TWD Saints&Sinners which was released in early 2020 then i can say that was the second game which was released after 2020 and i finished it
Yeah graphics peaked in 2015, Arkham Knight, NFS 2015, Order: 1886 and MGS5 were released that year and still looks better than new games. Witcher 3 could be added to that list but they downgraded it massively and it aged as badly as Fallout 4.
Literally 95% of the games I am playing right now are older. So many older games I never got to play are getting played, and I am not complaining. By the time I’m done playing all these older games, most of these studios will be shut down anyway, and everything will change back to the way it was.
Same. Been a PC lifer and never owned a console but my potato laptop was good enough to play most of these titles in the video and keep me sane all through campus. I already know I'll build a good PC to replay my favorite games from this era on max difficulty and settings
now that I think about it, the most "newly made" games I've bought are Elden Ring and Helldivers 2. Kenshi released 2019, and Bannerlord was 2020. Starsector is in beta. Damn, I've been playing old games without noticing xd
Every year I always re-play F.E.A.R. The story is dark, the A.I are clever and the overall feel of it is ominous. Another is the first Unreal, because it is just unreal.
a man of culture, also play fear 1 its so good, the enemies are cool, the gameplay is cool the only thing that ruins it is alma feel like they could have went with something else instead of a cliche. Unreal is goat, the devs put their heart into it and i could feel it, bot support is awsome something most new games dont do.
Damn, I need to replay FEAR, it was absolutely insane. I recommend the burnout series if you like over the top extreme action(specifically takedown and revenge).
Somehow games now have more funding, dev time and devs working on them, yet they come out broken, half finished, charge extra to get all content and require constant Internet connection. Back then, games just had a soul to them that cannot be captured by modern games. Everything today feels like a marvel movie.
This. It's basically DEI in effect. The truly talented guys have LONG left the building or are in senior management positions/ collecting a paycheck. The people working on AAA games now are just not as talented or passionate about what they make.
Devs were given sometimes less than 3 years to make a AAA games, and they were actually good. Now they get 5+ years in development hell and the games turn out mid or garbage.
Welp, everyone pull out your PS3's, 360's and other assorted consoles. Time to buckle down and enjoy the classics because it looks like we might be here for a while. Glad I still got em. Need to update my library again though, thanks for the recommendations 👍🏾
Hell yeah brotha. Got my 360, GameCube and N64 and they’ve been providing me with all the gaming fun I need. I thought I was just getting older and losing my taste for gaming…turns out new games just STINK. Bust out the retros and have yourself a time. Who the hell needs a PS5 that barely has any quality, original titles anyway?
The good thing about playing older titles is that you ALWAYS find something new to enjoy. I grew up with the PS2 and im still discovering either new games or playing franchises i have missed out on.
We are the correct audience though. Those of us between 35-45 are THE gaming generation. We were the ones who played games since childhood for the first time and now are all old enough to have the money to buy whatever games we want. We are the ideal market unlike younger people who may be gamers but have no money or at least less money. Any studio/publisher with half a brain should be focused heavily on the massive audience of 30 somethings who grew up with games, still want to play them, and have actual professional income to spend.
While I wouldn't say we are the main audience, the 30-50 year old gamers now are a MASSIVE chunk of total customer base. So, realistically speaking there should be a diversified market for games, there should be your fortnites, your amogus, minecrafts and robloxes for the younger people, but there should also be a veritable market aimed at adults with more mature and complex themes, something that the western game devs are so heavily opposed to making, there's an actual gold mine for studios that would be capable of making great games for this market as games like Wukong are proving.
Gta v, Skyrim, Halo 3, cod 4, mass effect, borderlands 1/2, red dead redemption, far cry, saints row, god of war just to name a few of the games that came out within the span of 5 years. All the games I listed are infinitely better than the stuff I see now, I’ve had conversations with people about this very subject and we all agree games nowadays SUCK
I wanna give props to “Star Wars The Force Unleashed” most batshit crazy game ive ever played. You play as darth vaders apprentice, murder jedi, then fuck up Darth Vader and the emperor by yourself. You can also use the force to pick up and chuck people into an endless void
I only got to play the second game on my ps3. I still remember the opening sequence. batshit insane, having you drop down into the abyss while wielding the dual lightsabers destroying falling debry.
From my experience I find that the older games have a more heart and you can spend less time on them. Nowadays games have less heart and you spend more time on them. Now yes there are some good modern games out there but they haven’t been coming around as often as it used to. Oh and for this 3:15 I am one of those people who totally don’t mind playing as a less attractive character as long as they are at best interesting! But I know that it’s not for everyone.
Going back to old games is how I played bioshock for the first time. My goodness all three games are so so good.
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I recently played Mafia 2 again and it felt like entering another world. There are so many racist slurs and other things that would probably make headlines in woke media if this game was realeased today. But I enjoyed it :D
Other games I would add are Alien Isolation, Alien vs Predator 2010, Assassin's Creed 1, Bioshock 2, Brothers in Arms Hells Highway, Bully, Brutal Legends, Call of Duty Big Red One and World at War, Call of Juarez 2, Castlevania Lords of Shadow, Condemned, Fear, The Darkness 1 and 2, Darksiders, The Evil Within 1 and 2, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Ghostbuster the Video Game, Halo 3, Greedfall, King Kong, Metro 2033, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, Nexomon Extinction, Rage, Resident Evil 4, Shadow Warrior remake, South Park the Stick of Truth, Spec Ops The Line, Terminator Resistance, Wolfenstein The New Order, and The Wolf Among Us.
The quality just isn’t there anymore, and on top of that, I pretty much expect some sort of forced diversity in today’s games also. Not too much incentive to pay $70.
I love metro man. It's immersive, great story and I always try to play in Russian. Lastly I installed exodus and it was good from what I remembered but I don't have the energy to play it. Would probably love it.
Home page recommendations pulled through today. I just turned 23 last week, and for I'd say the past 5 or so years I've just been going backwards because I got so jaded with modern gaming. I did play some older games growing up, DOOM 2, Half-Life, and some older console games, being inspired by AVGN back in the day, but I didn't delve in and focus on old games almost exclusively until a few years ago. Some of my personal favorites I've played in the past few years are Daggerfall, System Shock, and Fallout 1, which I had played before, but I finally sat down and beat a few years ago. There's plenty of other games I've played, mostly DOS games, but those 3 are the games that have in some way changed how I view video games, and what I want to see in games going forward in one way or another. Honestly having gone back far enough I've changed on what I would even consider to be an "old" game. I also like to try random games on myabandonware, and sometimes you can find something really good, or at least with some cool ideas.
honestly, I've noticed how the game industry today have this tendency of appealing to a younger more immature and therefore a more influenceable, malleable audience, because at the end of the day any form of media is a form of indoctrination and during times like these, you bet they do use also videogames to push certain agendas. in the past, younger audience was also the target but somehow the theme and execution of videogames was literally the contrary of what they are today. meanwhile today, from the point of view of the consumer the ones making things move are not the youngsters, not at all, they have no money after all. but the 20ish, 30ish, 40ish men from older generations who experienced gaming during its goldtimes.
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, and tbh I feel a little stupid that it took me this long to recognize the right word for it. But yes the real problem with it, thd true issue? Is in fact a lack of maturity and lack of care to a more mature audience in favor of immature little basrards instead.
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, and tbh I feel a little stupid that it took me this long to recognize the right word for it. But yes, the real problem with it is that true issue? In fact, there is a lack of maturity and lack of care to a more mature audience in favor of immature little bastards instead.
It really was. It mirrors western culture in general. Everything got worse including music, cars, movies, and daily life. The economy might've been pretty good in the second half of the 10s but the zeitgeist was completely hijacked.
i cant stand eastern games very well either besides the women's character designs every other aspect is just as bad like western games gameplay is only slightly better, same bullshit applies to indie games
@@tlst94 Horrible. Red Dead Redemption 1 or 2 would never have been made, POSTAL 2: paradise lost would never have been made and we'd have been stuck with 3, and neither would minecraft past indev stages.
This is why I love my backlog list. I’m currently playing the Mafia series, and I just finished the Metro series and Resident Evil 7 a few days ago. I’m enjoying gaming again after months of not even booting up my consoles.
I am with you man. After Spiderman 2 i bought an xbox x so i can start my collection of older backward compatible games. In 2024 i only bought Like A Dragon 8 and Dragons Dogma 2, and both disappointed me, that was the last straw on new games. Japan is no longer safe from the west influence. I have moved on to just emulating PS1,PS2,WII,Gamecube,Dreamcast and PS3 games and having a blast doing so. I have 0 interest in anything coming out from AAA, after 2015 it has gotten harder and harder to find worthwhile games. Last year 2023 was just a big heap of trash, the only original game worthwhile for me was Dave the Diver, an indie title.
I gave up on Consoles had both Xbox and Playstation and finally saved and got a good pc. Only play older games with mods, don't regret just regret getting Xbox and Playstation. With Steam and Gog you can have a very good and deep library of games .
I am so glad you've decided to include a list of recommended alternatives. I know and even own most of these, but it's a good reminder of what I still have available to experience and better yet, which ones to add to that list.
I played the campaigns of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare trilogy, and I enjoyed the stories it told. Older games made you think about how to proceed, and completing all they had to offer granted you the competitive edge to keep going. Something new games stopped focusing on.
I get what you mean. The og modern warfare trilogy felt like an interactive action film. The set pieces you fought on told the story along with the music. I’ll never forget “war pigs” (cod4) and “of their own accord” (mw2) can’t forget cod 5 ending though, can’t remember the title of the level. But I can still hear sgt robuck saying “this is it, the enemies final stand, we take shuri castle, we go home” and then boom ambush. But yeah can’t stand newer games atm. Been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And I can’t put it down
RDR2 and Batman Arkham series was the end. RDR2 was everything amazing in old games. I played the story again since it came out. I did again the other day and remembered why Arthur Morgan was amazing. Still finding new details in that game. Im scared GTA6 will be a woke pos.
Great video! I'm an older gamer, 52, agree with this! I find myself playing older 360 games. What happened to the days of games being less than 10 GB?! Look at the old Fallout games, really fun, small file size! Get back to basics!
new games spend so much time trying to refine the graphics instead of making the games interesting and fun. that’s what i miss about my ps3 ps4 and ps2
@@ytmldLast game which were made with this purpose (not a jaw dropping graphic/engine,but ambient and effect on the player) was "This war of mine". Under one of its trailer named "The Survivor" one guy explains how he played less than 10 hours->told his friends its an awesome game->realized that he had affected by the game. And even the devs told him that was their goal. Where are these devs nowadays?
"Weren't you a little too old to have grown up with the 360?" *(next you'll answer this Phineas & Ferb running gag as how the characters always respond)*
I second that! I ignore modern AAA games for over a decade, no matter what they are. I choose indie games, mods and older games. There is plenty of awesome, exciting and truly time-impervious stuff to go around! You can never go wrong with that.
I recently discovered Mafia and I'm working my way through it. That game is fricking amazing and it is honestly refreshing to have a protagonist who is a normal straight guy who is masculine, and has a love interest that is a beautiful, good natured woman.
I really love your channel, I feel exactly the same way you feel and I am only 23, grew up with ps1 and 2 and dip in quality in modern games are astounding. Dont stop making videos my man
12:32 thanks so much for bringing up the saboteur. I’m actually working on making it into a mini-series script and I got a little extra motivation to crack out some pages hearing you give it some props
I am surprised you did not mention Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, its the most unique game in the series, very goofy story and guns (lasers and 80s synthase aesthetic ). Not to mention its not a DLC its its own game.
@@nikobellic8002 yes they were. Way before even then, trust me. It just wasn't so prevalent as it is now. The formulaic design, the superficial story and cinematics, the liniar and plain level design (mostly open worlds). There were so many good games made last decade, but very few and far in between. And now we got to this point, were every release seems to be a disappointment.
@@averagegigel1448 No they weren't man I know what I say. You got south park, you got watch dogs(which had a mission about trafficking), far cry 4, wolfenstein etc etc...
Yea, but Nintendos copyright laws are trash and Rockstar abandoned their most recent game(RDR2) in less than a year(not to mention the scam that was the RDR1 "remaster" and sharkcards).
Older games are just simply better. I always find myself playing games from the 2000s and early 2010s more than playing new games on my Xbox series s. My personal favorites are the crysis series ( all three games are really good but my personal favorite is number 2 ) Battlefield 4 and 3 and the need for speed games (from 2005 to 2013) and I can't wait to play gta 4 soon
I keep coming back to mw 2005. There really isn't anything like it(carbon maybe) It's just really playable. Yeah I just remembered I still haven't finished gta 4. I played it of course but because of bug I haven't finished it fully. Maybe I should do full gta walkthrough.
@@nikobellic8002 I played mw 2005 a year ago and I can tell you it was one of the best experiences I ever had in a game. The story was good, the races were challenging but the police, they were something else and that was the reason I kept playing the game after beating it. Just now I started GTA 4 and I'm already really hooked into the game like I was with mw 2005
@@tobiasl8262 I also played it months ago and I can safely say yes you are right! It's still playable and enjoyable to this day. It's one of my favorite games ever. Oh yes the police chases are just *chefs kiss*
the monastery quest literally feels like a whole immersive sim level, i spent like good 2 days wandering around and experimenting there, i hope KCD2 has one of these mission types again
Recently I got gifted five games and it was such a beautiful and funny gift it was a letter, that had an Xbox account's email and password, anyways the account had : Ac Valhalla Watch dogs legion Hogwarts legacy (already played) Kcd (already played) Shenmue 1&2 HD Now here's the thing, i love this gift so much, because of one single game, people who played the game would know it the moment they read the name of that game, shenmue 1&2... Dude, there's no way that game was from 1999, the fact that we now have such advanced technology yet we rather make games that feel like chores, when in 1999 there was a game where even doing actual chores was fun. It's crazy
I watched a similar video by zenkai goose a few days ago. I think older games and consoles are making a comeback, I even started hopping back on my Xbox 360
An edgy game that was high quality but will never come back due to Disney is Volition's The Punisher on PS2. It had fatalities that were as brutal as Manhunt & you could shoot limbs & heads off. The gunplay is basically OG Saints Row, but with challenge-based level design like Max Payne so every level felt like an epic shoot out. Punisher used to make Marvel-slop look badass.
The Punisher game certainly had an appeal, but that was mostly thanks to Thomas Jane's voice there. Mr. Jane has successfully managed to depict the ultimate personification of this action hero, and etch it in our minds and over the veneer of the somewhat average game. He does have a great voice and had a perfect Punisher look, gotta give him that... But on the subject of brutality, it was never even in the same galaxy as Manhunt. Manhunt managed to out-mortal-kombat Mortal Kombat for the next thousand years, at least. The only games that could approach Manhunt in that subject - are the legendary Soldier of Fortune, Rogue Warrior and Mad Max. (there is Manhunt's sequel too).
Now that you mention it, I'm way more excited for romhacks and yesteryear indie titles than anything from a Summer Games Fest (which my phone suggested I replace with 'Dummer' or 'Bummer' when I missed the S)
Modern gaming feels like you’re always getting lectured at. They feel so hollow. If you’re gonna play modern games steer clear of western games and embrace Eastern European and Asian games. Final Fantasy XVI is the epitome of a modern game that feels like something from back when the industry was great.
The only new game I completed 100% last year was RoboCop:rogue city. It felt to me like a somewhat classic FPS. It also helped that it was based around the 80s RoboCop film instead of the remake 😂. I’ve been playing older games ever since I was disappointed with Starfield. I own Metal gear solid Silent hill 2 Morrowind Oblivion Mass effect Hitman:blood money Splinter cell:chaos theory and a few others
Mordern gamers: What? You DON'T like paying for that half completed game that will never be completed, just glorified walking simulation, uncreative, need mulipte form of payment and account, made to fit corporate and woke activists strandards, and lose the right to own the game you pay for? Sane gamers: Yes.🗿
The same here. Right now playing Nier Automata. Next it will be fallout 1 or valkyrie: silmeria. It's a good thing, we don't have to add more games to our wishing list and played the old games we didn't have time to play
Ill never forget the golden says of halo 3 online on the xbox 360 and playing it in my dark living room like i was in another dimension. That feeling is now gone and can't feel it ever again. 2007 halo 3: everyone had a mic..everyone had something to say. Everyone were gamers and everyone trolled hardcore and still had an amazing time and a roller coaster ride of social gameplay. 2024. NOBODY talks anymore. NOBODY plays those golden titles like they used to. Im still not playing fortnite. You get banned for trolling or account removed. You get recorded 24.7 on any shooter games or most games. Games are boring asf and the woke message makes it even more bland and uninteresting and unoriginal. Nothing exciting. Most games today in 2024 are cheaply made like its LEGIT still a remastered ps2 or xbox game on ps5/series x/s consoles. I seen more potential on ps3 and xbox 360. RIP xbox and Playstation. Ill never forget 😢
I can't agree more that Older games are just better, not in graphics, but in gameplay, story, soundtracks for some, and creativity in the games for another, and many of them are just a lot more fun Besides that, most older games didn't take as many storage on your device as new games would Also, new games that are great would be mostly made by eastern devs, and some indie devs
Glad we finally got one new AAA title here recently that actually is great. Highly reccomend "astro bot" to anyone with a ps5. Omg I haven't had that much fun playing a video game since crash bandicoot and Mario and sonic as a kid. It seriously makes me feel like that happy kid again every time I fire it up. And the best part is there is no paid DLC. Everything is included with your initial purchase. They don't want to nickel and dime us like most major studios anymore do... i respect that so much. Also it just dropped and has like zero bugs, which is unheard of for new games these days. That studio did a great job on delivering the old gaming experience for a newer generation and delivering a great game like what we used to get back in the good ol days of gaming
Crysis (2007) is the GOAT, probably my favorite game of all time. They did this game dirty and by C2 they took away most of the open-world feature. C2 should've picked up where C1 left it. The OG Crysis is one of the most underrated video games ever
Skyrim, Fallout 4, Dead Space 1, Max Payne 3,XCOM 1 and 2, Red Dead 1 and 2, planet coaster, total war: Warhammer 2, Bioshock Infinite, Half life 2, Warhammer: vermintide 2, Metro 2033, Metro last light, Spyro the dragon, Dishonored 1 and 2, the outer worlds, most of the Halo series.
Glad you brought up nfs hot pursuit. Pure racing, no cringe story or characters. And also, it’s crazy how games before tried to sell you on fun cause that’s what we care about. But nowadays it’s just…no.
At the moment, I'm getting lost in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Thousand hours in Skyrim but I never invested time in its predecessor. Having a great fucking time.
@@xmobius0ne will often throw away gameplay for a dogshit story anyway, indies have gotten so fucked up since undertale fucked the internets culture around 2015
Guitar Hero 3, COD WAW, OG MW 1-3, black ops 1-2, DMC 3 SE, sleeping dogs, king kong the official game, the 3D era mortal kombat games and Shaolin Monks, Area 51, metal gear revengeance, Budukai Tenkaichi, Turok reboot, dino crisis, og crash bandicoot, mirrors edge, dying light, resident evils 1-5, dead rising 2, left 4 dead 1-2, F.E.A.R., Amnesia, and Cry of Fear are all in my constant rotation
Gran turismo 2, Gran turismo 4, Xenoblade chronicles 1, final fantasy 6, final fantasy 5, Chrono trigger, Xenogears, Nier replicant, Nier automata, Castlevania symphony of the night. Some of my favourites of all time
@@nikobellic8002 It seems I'm not the only one with this thought, video games were good in the early to mid 2010s, only in the late 2010s did they start to decline.
@@nikobellic8002 So let's say that the beginning and middle of the PS4 was good, only at the end it got bad, and I realized that video games started to decline after the Wii U was discontinued.
Alpha Protocol Dead to Rights: Retribution Dead Space 2 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Fatal Frame 2: Wii remake Beyond Two Souls Dragon Age 2 Silent Hill: Homecoming SoulCalibur 5 Good memories
Nier Automata was the last real game I enjoyed. I was both excited to play it since it was both funny and unpredictable, but also mortified at the reminder that I forgot what true games were like.
I’ve been having lots of fun playing the old Resident Evil’s, the first Red Dead Redemption, The Batman Arkham game’s & The Uncharted series and not only are they absolute masterpiece but they still do hold up great. Especially the Batman & Uncharted game’s
I still remember the first time i played Assassin's creed 2 and brotherhood, the dishonored games from Bethesda Studio, the sheer amount excitement and refreshment those gave me at that time, ohh maaaaan. I wanted to explore every part of the map wanted to just stare at the artistic presentations of those old games. I just wanted to lost in the lores and fantastic musics they played in the background. Aaaah i miss those days. It feels empty playing now a days. I couldn't enjoy these newer games anymore maybe i have grown up or maybe the company's don't try enough or may be it's just i have lost what it means to be a gamer........
Guys, just play Yakuza, it's an awesome game and you should definitely check it out it's the only game that keeps it's awesome material even in modern times
Modern Games Developers be like "We openly hate you if you buy this game" and then throw a fit when they get sacked cause nobody bought their games lmfao
Pure facts my brother
@@andypantsgaming You should make a video about the fact that hitman contracts was a marvel for it's time and it was unpopular
Did this happen to Eldrn Ring, Stellar Blade, The newest yakuza game? Oh sorry.Those games aren't normie enough for you. You never heard of them
@@frogglen6350 the newest Yakuza Game? Yes, it did. Elden Ring and Stellar Blade? Afaik the only negatives came from their Publishers, the developers themselves actually liked their playerbase
@@frogglen6350 elden ring and stellar blade were scared of the PC mob. Remember that they called it player type 1 and 2 in ER? Sony I believe was forcing the censorship on stellar blade.
Old Games = 10 Hours of Pure fun
New Games = 60 Hours of Extra Work of the office in your Home
lol
And you need to pay extra for 55 of those hours
Yeah.. the grinding!
Fr..games feel like a chore now and like a constant seminar on diversity and equality..
Exactly why I left Genshin. Character and consequently story progression is tied to currency earned through side quests, which I cannot even consider as gameplay, how terrible they are. Waifus weren't enough for me to sell my time like that.
I thought it was just me because I'm 35. It's not just video games, it's music, movies, TV shows. Even social interactions are lack luster now due to social media.
Well said. It's to obvious. Just disgusting 🤮
Whos in charge of those industries?
@@jeremybrocknblue5593the big nose people
perhaps he should move his ass now
they coming on the clear path of the old mtv tv show =) .
Honestly older games are actually 10x better
That is for sure.
@@ywer3455 I played every type of game imaginable. I played every game that was also listed up to number 1 of the list of every game. None of them are impressive.
@@ywer3455 the older games are way better than the newer games. Newer games are just copied and pasted garbage.
@@ywer3455 indies are copied and pasted garbage as well. Most indies are metroidvanias, the ones that aren't are disco elysium which is just talking to people and sea of stars which was copied and pasted golden sun combined with chrono trigger. The outer wilds made me go to sleep, it was so boring.
@KatKat32 vr games are mostly indies but again, they are shallow and they get repetitive and boring fast. Once indies start actually going big and creating high graphics open world stuff, then let me know.
Older games don't hog 60+gigs of my storage space for a result that might look marginally better than something from 2010
2010/2013 games have charm and graphics that can be made better looking with reshades and they perform better in 4k as well.
Recommended vram for prototype is 256mb btw
Battlefield 2 is still able to be played online
for real, the amount of space needed just for one game is ridiculous. i miss when you could just pop a game into the console and pla it. no downloading or anything
As soon as I knew SweetBabyInc, Vanguard and BlackRock took over the gaming industry, I knew I had to start buying old consoles to play/replay real masterpieces again. Fk new games.
Yup
Agreed. Sweet baby inc is a leech of gaming.
That's why now I prefer to have a Wii U over an Xbox Series X
most unimportant thing in the entire universe
@@Danny-mp8dq Are you talking about your life or something?
This is why I’m starting Skyrim over at the moment.
Haha been in your place many times, still yet to finish that game.
Fellow Stealth Archer
@@wesss9353no matter what character you try and build in Skyrim, they always end up as a stealth archer because it's so overpowered.
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Haven't done one of those since 2011. I prefer to go with warrior builds
@@Njohns1 I've been gaming since the early 80s and I maintain that Skyrim is the greatest game I've ever played. It has some flaws and there are some aspects that other games might do better. But when all things are considered, it was a monumental achievement and I have never seen anything that tops it.
Modern video game devs be like:
"If you don't like our politics, don't buy our game."
*the game sells poorly*
"Wait... you mean NOBODY likes our politics? How's that even possible?!"
Dont forget they will throw some "ist, and phobes" words on every failure
Or how everything was actually political all along "and they have to point it all out"
Yes tell me again about how Mario, Doomguy, and Scorpion are actually (text here)-ist/ support your cause.
NFS is actually about rising above suppression of self, and anarchy.
Or Ratchet and Clank is socialist manifesto
There best case arguments come from things like Cod, who are given funding to advertise the military.
However even then, the best of these games show the horrors of war, and corruption that can be brought about from it.
"but that's also a political statement"
Totally, because defaming the premise of your game, is definitely what a politically active entity who are known to be very open minded and especially creative would do
I wonder what Ghosts stance is on conscription?
- No normal person ever
The final part of your post gives them far too much credit.
DEI is a main killer of entertainment industry.
They already destroyed movies and web series now they are going after video games
Older games are better because their developers were actually gamers
Not gonna lie. In the last 4 years the only "new" game i finished was Dead Island 2. If we check TWD Saints&Sinners which was released in early 2020 then i can say that was the second game which was released after 2020 and i finished it
So true
@@patriktoth6258 What do you think of di2? I write it on my backlog and would try it in the future.
The arkham games hold up so well and arkham knight looks better than modern games
Just replayed those this year again. The only new game I’ve bought this year was Stellar Blade and Space Marine 2
@@cheshire2.047 the only new game I bought is helldivers 2 great game
Yeah graphics peaked in 2015, Arkham Knight, NFS 2015, Order: 1886 and MGS5 were released that year and still looks better than new games. Witcher 3 could be added to that list but they downgraded it massively and it aged as badly as Fallout 4.
@@Dregomz02 nah witcher 3 looks quite good
@@xhontafaruci3445 but nowhere near as good as they promised us they also lied about living world with ai that had day/night cycles
Literally 95% of the games I am playing right now are older. So many older games I never got to play are getting played, and I am not complaining. By the time I’m done playing all these older games, most of these studios will be shut down anyway, and everything will change back to the way it was.
unless the economy is fucked enough then things will get so much worse
Having a backlog those days is needed.
I am a gen z kid and me and friends mainly play games that were released before 2019 cause I love when any media purposely try to offend someone.
Same here. Big Halo fan here.
Same. Been a PC lifer and never owned a console but my potato laptop was good enough to play most of these titles in the video and keep me sane all through campus. I already know I'll build a good PC to replay my favorite games from this era on max difficulty and settings
now that I think about it, the most "newly made" games I've bought are Elden Ring and Helldivers 2.
Kenshi released 2019, and Bannerlord was 2020. Starsector is in beta.
Damn, I've been playing old games without noticing xd
same
Based
It's not even nostalgia anymore. Old games are objectively better
It never fully was. Some things really done better in old games.
Prototype getting the respect it deserves in the thumbnail...and I'm here for it
10 or 15 years ago, I use to have a tradition to play prototype on christmas eve every year lol
For real! That was the first game I ever got for the Xbox 360 wayyyy back when, and it'll always be special to me because of that.
I have the same thing but with mafia 2 or GTA 4 . Mad respect rasta@@etceterax144
it's the only true supervillian game in my eyes
@@GrantTodd-eh7ub it is hands down one of my favourite x360 games of all times, what a game!
Every year I always re-play F.E.A.R. The story is dark, the A.I are clever and the overall feel of it is ominous. Another is the first Unreal, because it is just unreal.
Dude FEAR is perfect at what it does. The sound design was also top. The sound of shell casings hitting various textures was done by a damn savant.
a man of culture, also play fear 1 its so good, the enemies are cool, the gameplay is cool the only thing that ruins it is alma feel like they could have went with something else instead of a cliche. Unreal is goat, the devs put their heart into it and i could feel it, bot support is awsome something most new games dont do.
FEAR was ahead of its time for sure. Felt crazy playing it when it first came out.
Damn, I need to replay FEAR, it was absolutely insane. I recommend the burnout series if you like over the top extreme action(specifically takedown and revenge).
@@12ealDealOfficialcould never get through it as a kid bcuz it terrified me and my brother
Somehow games now have more funding, dev time and devs working on them, yet they come out broken, half finished, charge extra to get all content and require constant Internet connection. Back then, games just had a soul to them that cannot be captured by modern games. Everything today feels like a marvel movie.
This. It's basically DEI in effect. The truly talented guys have LONG left the building or are in senior management positions/ collecting a paycheck. The people working on AAA games now are just not as talented or passionate about what they make.
Like how Pokemon Gen 2's remakes were made with heart & soul. lol
Devs were given sometimes less than 3 years to make a AAA games, and they were actually good. Now they get 5+ years in development hell and the games turn out mid or garbage.
@@12ealDealOfficialActivists mate, you mean their activists
Welp, everyone pull out your PS3's, 360's and other assorted consoles. Time to buckle down and enjoy the classics because it looks like we might be here for a while. Glad I still got em. Need to update my library again though, thanks for the recommendations 👍🏾
Hell yeah brotha. Got my 360, GameCube and N64 and they’ve been providing me with all the gaming fun I need. I thought I was just getting older and losing my taste for gaming…turns out new games just STINK. Bust out the retros and have yourself a time. Who the hell needs a PS5 that barely has any quality, original titles anyway?
@@theburnedman5641 Nice, yeah classics > new titles. The new titles are nothing but woke trash. It's a shame.
The good thing about playing older titles is that you ALWAYS find something new to enjoy. I grew up with the PS2 and im still discovering either new games or playing franchises i have missed out on.
Like which games do u recommend that u found recently ?
We are the correct audience though. Those of us between 35-45 are THE gaming generation. We were the ones who played games since childhood for the first time and now are all old enough to have the money to buy whatever games we want. We are the ideal market unlike younger people who may be gamers but have no money or at least less money. Any studio/publisher with half a brain should be focused heavily on the massive audience of 30 somethings who grew up with games, still want to play them, and have actual professional income to spend.
Hell of a self centered comment but you got the heart I guess 😂
While I wouldn't say we are the main audience, the 30-50 year old gamers now are a MASSIVE chunk of total customer base. So, realistically speaking there should be a diversified market for games, there should be your fortnites, your amogus, minecrafts and robloxes for the younger people, but there should also be a veritable market aimed at adults with more mature and complex themes, something that the western game devs are so heavily opposed to making, there's an actual gold mine for studios that would be capable of making great games for this market as games like Wukong are proving.
Im 47 and finally have a decent life saved up….. i can and would buy any game i want but they arent putting out anything i wanna waste money on.
Gta v, Skyrim, Halo 3, cod 4, mass effect, borderlands 1/2, red dead redemption, far cry, saints row, god of war just to name a few of the games that came out within the span of 5 years. All the games I listed are infinitely better than the stuff I see now, I’ve had conversations with people about this very subject and we all agree games nowadays SUCK
How do you feel about ghost of Tashima
Skyrims 13
@@DDSAH-s9b Just slightly better Assassin's creed nothing more nothing less.
Try gta 4. Thousand times better than 5
GTA IV > GTA V though. But your point stands.
Older games used to be so complete, they were making official strategy guides for them.
I wanna give props to “Star Wars The Force Unleashed” most batshit crazy game ive ever played. You play as darth vaders apprentice, murder jedi, then fuck up Darth Vader and the emperor by yourself. You can also use the force to pick up and chuck people into an endless void
I only got to play the second game on my ps3.
I still remember the opening sequence.
batshit insane, having you drop down into the abyss while wielding the dual lightsabers destroying falling debry.
Cool game but Jedi Outcast/Academy was much better at least when it comes to sword fighting, any game after that felt like a massive downgrade.
@@Dregomz02Jedi Academy for sword fighting. But the force powers in the Force Unleashed were the best
Older games, older music, older books, older movies, older food menus …the list goes on 😅
Older tv series
From my experience I find that the older games have a more heart and you can spend less time on them. Nowadays games have less heart and you spend more time on them.
Now yes there are some good modern games out there but they haven’t been coming around as often as it used to. Oh and for this 3:15 I am one of those people who totally don’t mind playing as a less attractive character as long as they are at best interesting! But I know that it’s not for everyone.
Going back to old games is how I played bioshock for the first time. My goodness all three games are so so good.
I recently played Mafia 2 again and it felt like entering another world. There are so many racist slurs and other things that would probably make headlines in woke media if this game was realeased today. But I enjoyed it :D
Lmao the story was good on top of that
I need to get the 1st remaster.
Voice acting just doesn't do it for me in the remake, but the experience is better overall. Still the best Mafia game to date.
@@bmsuperstar1 The Original Is great honestly, its also incredibly well optimized.
@@bruhlol2744 Yeah, it's great. I play it at least once a year.
The "Statistics" will show people have stopped playing video games. But the truth is, more people than ever are playing old games, offline.
Other games I would add are Alien Isolation, Alien vs Predator 2010, Assassin's Creed 1, Bioshock 2, Brothers in Arms Hells Highway, Bully, Brutal Legends, Call of Duty Big Red One and World at War, Call of Juarez 2, Castlevania Lords of Shadow, Condemned, Fear, The Darkness 1 and 2, Darksiders, The Evil Within 1 and 2, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Ghostbuster the Video Game, Halo 3, Greedfall, King Kong, Metro 2033, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, Nexomon Extinction, Rage, Resident Evil 4, Shadow Warrior remake, South Park the Stick of Truth, Spec Ops The Line, Terminator Resistance, Wolfenstein The New Order, and The Wolf Among Us.
Great list
it can get a few more games like the infamous series, postal 2 with all of its DLC's, those are the ones that comes to my mind at 12 pm
Great list there my dude
Spec Ops: The Line.
Republic Commando
Space Marine
Darksiders 1, 2
Xbox 360 and PS4 era was the peak of gaming. Nowadays we only get unfinished, broken and political statement garbage.
Finally someone mentions the PS4 era, it's quite underrated (at least pre 2016) and don't forget the Wii U, that was also the peak
PS4 era was when shit got garbage
@@crystallinehearts8805 Then you're talking about PS4 post 2016, that's bad.
The quality just isn’t there anymore, and on top of that, I pretty much expect some sort of forced diversity in today’s games also.
Not too much incentive to pay $70.
I buy remakes that’s about it. But I will pick up kcd 2
METRO 2033 and METRO LAST LIGHT are extremely slept on games from the 2000s
I love metro man. It's immersive, great story and I always try to play in Russian. Lastly I installed exodus and it was good from what I remembered but I don't have the energy to play it. Would probably love it.
Home page recommendations pulled through today. I just turned 23 last week, and for I'd say the past 5 or so years I've just been going backwards because I got so jaded with modern gaming. I did play some older games growing up, DOOM 2, Half-Life, and some older console games, being inspired by AVGN back in the day, but I didn't delve in and focus on old games almost exclusively until a few years ago. Some of my personal favorites I've played in the past few years are Daggerfall, System Shock, and Fallout 1, which I had played before, but I finally sat down and beat a few years ago. There's plenty of other games I've played, mostly DOS games, but those 3 are the games that have in some way changed how I view video games, and what I want to see in games going forward in one way or another. Honestly having gone back far enough I've changed on what I would even consider to be an "old" game. I also like to try random games on myabandonware, and sometimes you can find something really good, or at least with some cool ideas.
You remind me of my brother in law. He is 20 but just like me. Loves super offensive funny games.
@@andypantsgaming same here at almost 25 ahah, the only new game im waiting is the new doom...
I would suggest PROTOTYPE. It was featured on the video.
That game is a core memory for me.
reality has been fucked since 2012
No, is 2017
2012 is fine. It's bad since 2016.
No
honestly, I've noticed how the game industry today have this tendency of appealing to a younger more immature and therefore a more influenceable, malleable audience, because at the end of the day any form of media is a form of indoctrination and during times like these, you bet they do use also videogames to push certain agendas. in the past, younger audience was also the target but somehow the theme and execution of videogames was literally the contrary of what they are today. meanwhile today, from the point of view of the consumer the ones making things move are not the youngsters, not at all, they have no money after all. but the 20ish, 30ish, 40ish men from older generations who experienced gaming during its goldtimes.
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, and tbh I feel a little stupid that it took me this long to recognize the right word for it. But yes the real problem with it, thd true issue? Is in fact a lack of maturity and lack of care to a more mature audience in favor of immature little basrards instead.
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, and tbh I feel a little stupid that it took me this long to recognize the right word for it. But yes, the real problem with it is that true issue? In fact, there is a lack of maturity and lack of care to a more mature audience in favor of immature little bastards instead.
The games industry died long ago, people are just now smelling the corpse
2000s was the last great decade for western gaming
It really was. It mirrors western culture in general. Everything got worse including music, cars, movies, and daily life. The economy might've been pretty good in the second half of the 10s but the zeitgeist was completely hijacked.
What would've been like if Western games were forever banned from being made after the 2000s? While in favor of Japanese games instead?
i cant stand eastern games very well either besides the women's character designs every other aspect is just as bad like western games gameplay is only slightly better, same bullshit applies to indie games
Not true, it was the 2010's.
Then again, even post 2020 there are good games. Both indie and beyond.
@@tlst94 Horrible. Red Dead Redemption 1 or 2 would never have been made, POSTAL 2: paradise lost would never have been made and we'd have been stuck with 3, and neither would minecraft past indev stages.
This is why I love my backlog list. I’m currently playing the Mafia series, and I just finished the Metro series and Resident Evil 7 a few days ago. I’m enjoying gaming again after months of not even booting up my consoles.
Fellow metro enjoyer hello!
I am with you man. After Spiderman 2 i bought an xbox x so i can start my collection of older backward compatible games. In 2024 i only bought Like A Dragon 8 and Dragons Dogma 2, and both disappointed me, that was the last straw on new games. Japan is no longer safe from the west influence.
I have moved on to just emulating PS1,PS2,WII,Gamecube,Dreamcast and PS3 games and having a blast doing so. I have 0 interest in anything coming out from AAA, after 2015 it has gotten harder and harder to find worthwhile games. Last year 2023 was just a big heap of trash, the only original game worthwhile for me was Dave the Diver, an indie title.
Have you played the other Yakuza games?
I gave up on Consoles had both Xbox and Playstation and finally saved and got a good pc. Only play older games with mods, don't regret just regret getting Xbox and Playstation. With Steam and Gog you can have a very good and deep library of games .
Glad I have friends on this. Recently I did keep playing old game and retro device. FF XII, DMC, Pokemon, MH...
Look at mortal kombat 9 compared to mortal kombat X or 11. The blackrock effect is REAL
X Was fine mostly, but 11 Was absolutely trash.
Mkx is better than both..
Yeah. Ultra-gory fatalities are fine, but cleavage is apparently going too far
Black Rock effect is very real and I'm fucking sick of it.. bastards
Look at MK9 compared to MK1. It gets even worse.
I am so glad you've decided to include a list of recommended alternatives. I know and even own most of these, but it's a good reminder of what I still have available to experience and better yet, which ones to add to that list.
DEI Wokies and Corpo greed really strangled the creativity out the games so there is no passion just margins and shareholders
Older games cared more for players, art vision and gameplay. Now, they don't have any of the basic things that Made them good games.
Back in the good days quality is what sold copies. Nowadays micro transactions make more money for some reason
I played the campaigns of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare trilogy, and I enjoyed the stories it told.
Older games made you think about how to proceed, and completing all they had to offer granted you the competitive edge to keep going. Something new games stopped focusing on.
Play more games that have a soul actually put into them
I get what you mean. The og modern warfare trilogy felt like an interactive action film. The set pieces you fought on told the story along with the music. I’ll never forget “war pigs” (cod4) and “of their own accord” (mw2) can’t forget cod 5 ending though, can’t remember the title of the level. But I can still hear sgt robuck saying “this is it, the enemies final stand, we take shuri castle, we go home” and then boom ambush.
But yeah can’t stand newer games atm. Been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And I can’t put it down
Games before 2020 were awesome & more fun than games nowadays.
Max Payne was so fcking good 🤌🏻
RDR2 and Batman Arkham series was the end. RDR2 was everything amazing in old games. I played the story again since it came out. I did again the other day and remembered why Arthur Morgan was amazing. Still finding new details in that game. Im scared GTA6 will be a woke pos.
We not gonna get other good AAA Arkham game
Judging by the trailer, it 100% is going to be.
@@mofuhh That's just a trailer and trailer tells nothing. It just says it's going more fun route. What says woke in the trailer?
Great video! I'm an older gamer, 52, agree with this! I find myself playing older 360 games. What happened to the days of games being less than 10 GB?! Look at the old Fallout games, really fun, small file size! Get back to basics!
Yep!
new games spend so much time trying to refine the graphics instead of making the games interesting and fun. that’s what i miss about my ps3 ps4 and ps2
@@ytmldLast game which were made with this purpose (not a jaw dropping graphic/engine,but ambient and effect on the player) was "This war of mine". Under one of its trailer named "The Survivor" one guy explains how he played less than 10 hours->told his friends its an awesome game->realized that he had affected by the game. And even the devs told him that was their goal.
Where are these devs nowadays?
"Weren't you a little too old to have grown up with the 360?" *(next you'll answer this Phineas & Ferb running gag as how the characters always respond)*
I second that! I ignore modern AAA games for over a decade, no matter what they are.
I choose indie games, mods and older games. There is plenty of awesome, exciting and
truly time-impervious stuff to go around! You can never go wrong with that.
I recently discovered Mafia and I'm working my way through it. That game is fricking amazing and it is honestly refreshing to have a protagonist who is a normal straight guy who is masculine, and has a love interest that is a beautiful, good natured woman.
Game name ?
Do you play original or remake?
@@shafidos6012 Super mario galaxy
everything went to shit during 2012. Gaming was never the same since
The world ended, in a spiritual way, in 2012
@@Skumtomten1 really
Nope. We have Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring. Fromsoftware is the last greay kingdom of gaming still standing
Lmao the dumb shit y’all say on this app is hilarious 🤣😭
@@redeyetrey4763 prove us wrong lmao
I recommend playing the STALKER games if you havent already, even the vanilla games without mods are great on their own.
And now on console
I really love your channel, I feel exactly the same way you feel and I am only 23, grew up with ps1 and 2 and dip in quality in modern games are astounding. Dont stop making videos my man
12:32 thanks so much for bringing up the saboteur. I’m actually working on making it into a mini-series script and I got a little extra motivation to crack out some pages hearing you give it some props
I am surprised you did not mention Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, its the most unique game in the series, very goofy story and guns (lasers and 80s synthase aesthetic ). Not to mention its not a DLC its its own game.
It is definitely solid proof that all these younger/new/woke developers were poorly raised!
0:10 remember when I commented on one of your videos about things becoming gayer and gayer and people acted like I was lying
The guy in the game is not gay
I used to comment about games dumbing down and becoming shittier more than a decade ago. I got some much flak from kids on trends back then.
@@averagegigel1448 But games didn't do that more than a decade ago. 2014 wasn't dumbed down.
@@nikobellic8002 yes they were. Way before even then, trust me. It just wasn't so prevalent as it is now. The formulaic design, the superficial story and cinematics, the liniar and plain level design (mostly open worlds). There were so many good games made last decade, but very few and far in between. And now we got to this point, were every release seems to be a disappointment.
@@averagegigel1448 No they weren't man I know what I say. You got south park, you got watch dogs(which had a mission about trafficking), far cry 4, wolfenstein etc etc...
Man I swear the fact I can only count on 3 devs now to make good new games is crazy
Fromsoftware
Rockstar
And occasionally Nintendo
I think Nintendo is more than occasionally
@@SnipingIsFun probably true
Yea, but Nintendos copyright laws are trash and Rockstar abandoned their most recent game(RDR2) in less than a year(not to mention the scam that was the RDR1 "remaster" and sharkcards).
pfp is gay asf opinion disregarded
Add Game Science (Wukong) Sandlot (EDF series) and Granzella (R-Type Final 2).
Older games are just simply better. I always find myself playing games from the 2000s and early 2010s more than playing new games on my Xbox series s. My personal favorites are the crysis series ( all three games are really good but my personal favorite is number 2 ) Battlefield 4 and 3 and the need for speed games (from 2005 to 2013) and I can't wait to play gta 4 soon
I keep coming back to mw 2005. There really isn't anything like it(carbon maybe)
It's just really playable.
Yeah I just remembered I still haven't finished gta 4. I played it of course but because of bug I haven't finished it fully. Maybe I should do full gta walkthrough.
@@nikobellic8002 I played mw 2005 a year ago and I can tell you it was one of the best experiences I ever had in a game. The story was good, the races were challenging but the police, they were something else and that was the reason I kept playing the game after beating it. Just now I started GTA 4 and I'm already really hooked into the game like I was with mw 2005
@@tobiasl8262 I also played it months ago and I can safely say yes you are right! It's still playable and enjoyable to this day. It's one of my favorite games ever. Oh yes the police chases are just *chefs kiss*
OMG Singularity! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for ages. Finished it on Xbox 360,an absolute hidden gem of a game.
Definitely needed a sequel or similar game like that.
Kcd is one of those games that will make u feel you are actually living inside a videogame happy kcd2 is coming soon
Unlike anything I've ever played
@@andypantsgaming punching cows to level up was unlike anything ive played. Hmmm I'm hungry.
the monastery quest literally feels like a whole immersive sim level, i spent like good 2 days wandering around and experimenting there, i hope KCD2 has one of these mission types again
@@AhmadWahelsa I broke the game by finding a way into the monastery early.
Recently I got gifted five games and it was such a beautiful and funny gift it was a letter, that had an Xbox account's email and password, anyways the account had :
Ac Valhalla
Watch dogs legion
Hogwarts legacy (already played)
Kcd (already played)
Shenmue 1&2 HD
Now here's the thing, i love this gift so much, because of one single game, people who played the game would know it the moment they read the name of that game, shenmue 1&2... Dude, there's no way that game was from 1999, the fact that we now have such advanced technology yet we rather make games that feel like chores, when in 1999 there was a game where even doing actual chores was fun. It's crazy
I watched a similar video by zenkai goose a few days ago. I think older games and consoles are making a comeback, I even started hopping back on my Xbox 360
Mad max is such a great game, they had no right to make it so beautifully and they did
An edgy game that was high quality but will never come back due to Disney is Volition's The Punisher on PS2. It had fatalities that were as brutal as Manhunt & you could shoot limbs & heads off. The gunplay is basically OG Saints Row, but with challenge-based level design like Max Payne so every level felt like an epic shoot out. Punisher used to make Marvel-slop look badass.
The Punisher game certainly had an appeal, but that was mostly thanks to Thomas Jane's voice there.
Mr. Jane has successfully managed to depict the ultimate personification of this action hero, and etch it
in our minds and over the veneer of the somewhat average game. He does have a great voice and had a
perfect Punisher look, gotta give him that...
But on the subject of brutality, it was never even in the same galaxy as Manhunt. Manhunt managed to
out-mortal-kombat Mortal Kombat for the next thousand years, at least. The only games that could
approach Manhunt in that subject - are the legendary Soldier of Fortune, Rogue Warrior and Mad Max.
(there is Manhunt's sequel too).
Now that you mention it, I'm way more excited for romhacks and yesteryear indie titles than anything from a Summer Games Fest (which my phone suggested I replace with 'Dummer' or 'Bummer' when I missed the S)
Man you just talked my heart here, I actually loved playing old games and their stories were😘 today is just trash
The opening summed up the entire industry right now.
The Red Dead Redemption Series.
The God of War Series.
The ultimate duo
Only the PS2 GoW games r good these new ones r garbage... And red dead is meh IMO...
@@subzero308little kid trying to fit in with the older people.
RDR2 has to be the best game ive ever played honestly. Red dead 1 is just as great.
@@subzero308 You missed everything when you said red dead is meh.
Great video,i actually just finished L.A Noire 😂
The Bourne Conspiracy is a brilliant game too
I am adding Bourne Conspiracy to my games to check out
Didn’t know there was a Bourne game
7:15 one of my favorite games of all time.
Me too
The Prototype games are golden! god I miss them so much
Only played 2 but damn was it fire
Modern gaming feels like you’re always getting lectured at. They feel so hollow. If you’re gonna play modern games steer clear of western games and embrace Eastern European and Asian games. Final Fantasy XVI is the epitome of a modern game that feels like something from back when the industry was great.
The only new game I completed 100% last year was RoboCop:rogue city. It felt to me like a somewhat classic FPS. It also helped that it was based around the 80s RoboCop film instead of the remake 😂. I’ve been playing older games ever since I was disappointed with Starfield. I own Metal gear solid
Silent hill 2
Morrowind
Oblivion
Mass effect
Hitman:blood money
Splinter cell:chaos theory and a few others
Id also add Gothic 1 and 2 to the list
Silent Hill 3 and Downpour
Hitman contracts
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
The "remake" was not Robocop. It was robocock.🤣
Only games I play now:
Halo CE - Reach
COD2 - BO2
RDR & RDR2
Far Cry 2 & 5
do you play RDR in a PS3 emulator, or do you have a *lot* of consoles?
Hey, another red dead enjoyed I see.
@@warmike A surprising amount of people emulate older games like rdr1 on their PC. Im playing RDR1 using ryujinx on my linux desktop.
Mordern gamers: What? You DON'T like paying for that half completed game that will never be completed, just glorified walking simulation, uncreative, need mulipte form of payment and account, made to fit corporate and woke activists strandards, and lose the right to own the game you pay for?
Sane gamers: Yes.🗿
Just imagine going to an appliance store and buying a broken light.
Why? No reason. And that's why you don't.
The same here. Right now playing Nier Automata. Next it will be fallout 1 or valkyrie: silmeria. It's a good thing, we don't have to add more games to our wishing list and played the old games we didn't have time to play
Streets of rage had to be one of my all time favorites. It was a masterpiece and the new streets of rage 4 is another one of my all time favorites
Ill never forget the golden says of halo 3 online on the xbox 360 and playing it in my dark living room like i was in another dimension. That feeling is now gone and can't feel it ever again.
2007 halo 3: everyone had a mic..everyone had something to say. Everyone were gamers and everyone trolled hardcore and still had an amazing time and a roller coaster ride of social gameplay.
2024. NOBODY talks anymore. NOBODY plays those golden titles like they used to. Im still not playing fortnite. You get banned for trolling or account removed. You get recorded 24.7 on any shooter games or most games. Games are boring asf and the woke message makes it even more bland and uninteresting and unoriginal. Nothing exciting. Most games today in 2024 are cheaply made like its LEGIT still a remastered ps2 or xbox game on ps5/series x/s consoles. I seen more potential on ps3 and xbox 360. RIP xbox and Playstation. Ill never forget 😢
I can't agree more that Older games are just better, not in graphics, but in gameplay, story, soundtracks for some, and creativity in the games for another, and many of them are just a lot more fun
Besides that, most older games didn't take as many storage on your device as new games would
Also, new games that are great would be mostly made by eastern devs, and some indie devs
Glad we finally got one new AAA title here recently that actually is great. Highly reccomend "astro bot" to anyone with a ps5. Omg I haven't had that much fun playing a video game since crash bandicoot and Mario and sonic as a kid. It seriously makes me feel like that happy kid again every time I fire it up. And the best part is there is no paid DLC. Everything is included with your initial purchase. They don't want to nickel and dime us like most major studios anymore do... i respect that so much. Also it just dropped and has like zero bugs, which is unheard of for new games these days. That studio did a great job on delivering the old gaming experience for a newer generation and delivering a great game like what we used to get back in the good ol days of gaming
Would like to try it when it comes to pc. Playable solo right?
Crysis (2007) is the GOAT, probably my favorite game of all time. They did this game dirty and by C2 they took away most of the open-world feature. C2 should've picked up where C1 left it. The OG Crysis is one of the most underrated video games ever
Not underrated when it's loved by many
Skyrim, Fallout 4, Dead Space 1, Max Payne 3,XCOM 1 and 2, Red Dead 1 and 2, planet coaster, total war: Warhammer 2, Bioshock Infinite, Half life 2, Warhammer: vermintide 2, Metro 2033, Metro last light, Spyro the dragon, Dishonored 1 and 2, the outer worlds, most of the Halo series.
Loved ds1.
Max payne series still worth playing.
Red dead is amazing.
Oh metro metro! One of my favorite series of all time.
Glad you brought up nfs hot pursuit. Pure racing, no cringe story or characters. And also, it’s crazy how games before tried to sell you on fun cause that’s what we care about. But nowadays it’s just…no.
My friend gifted me the game, at first i thought it was dogshit, but now im addicted to online
At the moment, I'm getting lost in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Thousand hours in Skyrim but I never invested time in its predecessor. Having a great fucking time.
"Just play indie games"
Indie games are not safe from being broken and/or gay. I'd argue them to be of higher risk too
@@xmobius0ne will often throw away gameplay for a dogshit story anyway, indies have gotten so fucked up since undertale fucked the internets culture around 2015
Bullshit.
Any examples, proof or suggestions?
Going back and playing Halo 1-3 for the 99th time.
Guitar Hero 3, COD WAW, OG MW 1-3, black ops 1-2, DMC 3 SE, sleeping dogs, king kong the official game, the 3D era mortal kombat games and Shaolin Monks, Area 51, metal gear revengeance, Budukai Tenkaichi, Turok reboot, dino crisis, og crash bandicoot, mirrors edge, dying light, resident evils 1-5, dead rising 2, left 4 dead 1-2, F.E.A.R., Amnesia, and Cry of Fear are all in my constant rotation
Gran turismo 2, Gran turismo 4, Xenoblade chronicles 1, final fantasy 6, final fantasy 5, Chrono trigger, Xenogears, Nier replicant, Nier automata, Castlevania symphony of the night.
Some of my favourites of all time
Gaming took a dive after 2016. You'd be lucky to find a hidden gem underneath all the garbage in today's landscape.
Finally, the person who thinks like me, video games were good until 2016, only from 2017 onwards it was only decadence
Exactly like how I think. 2016 is really one of the worst years for gaming and as a whole.
@@arthurgamerpro6585 I also think the same. Most of the things not worth playing after 2016.
@@nikobellic8002 It seems I'm not the only one with this thought, video games were good in the early to mid 2010s, only in the late 2010s did they start to decline.
@@nikobellic8002 So let's say that the beginning and middle of the PS4 was good, only at the end it got bad, and I realized that video games started to decline after the Wii U was discontinued.
Alpha Protocol
Dead to Rights: Retribution
Dead Space 2
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Fatal Frame 2: Wii remake
Beyond Two Souls
Dragon Age 2
Silent Hill: Homecoming
SoulCalibur 5
Good memories
2 hidden gems for me is Overlord and Overlord 2 on xbox 360
Nier Automata was the last real game I enjoyed. I was both excited to play it since it was both funny and unpredictable, but also mortified at the reminder that I forgot what true games were like.
I couldn't agree more, I think civilization will look back upon the late 90's to early 2010's as the Golden Era of Video Games.
I’ve been having lots of fun playing the old Resident Evil’s, the first Red Dead Redemption, The Batman Arkham game’s & The Uncharted series and not only are they absolute masterpiece but they still do hold up great. Especially the Batman & Uncharted game’s
Bad Company goes hard
0:02
I swear to God, he said "Boobisoft" 💀
Just look at dev teams now, now you know the answer why games turned to sh!t since like 2014
I still remember the first time i played Assassin's creed 2 and brotherhood, the dishonored games from Bethesda Studio, the sheer amount excitement and refreshment those gave me at that time, ohh maaaaan. I wanted to explore every part of the map wanted to just stare at the artistic presentations of those old games. I just wanted to lost in the lores and fantastic musics they played in the background. Aaaah i miss those days. It feels empty playing now a days. I couldn't enjoy these newer games anymore maybe i have grown up or maybe the company's don't try enough or may be it's just i have lost what it means to be a gamer........
Guys, just play Yakuza, it's an awesome game and you should definitely check it out
it's the only game that keeps it's awesome material even in modern times
Shame the most recent release put NG+ behind a paywall
@@twistoss7820 i mean it is a paid game
@@Guardrailkid yes, you see the problem? You pay for the game and then more for features wich were already free in previous games
Thing is, that series requires 100s of hours to get through.
@@AndySolid007 still I'd argue its one of the best beat em' up games out there